2020 Metal ’n’ Heavy Rock/Heavy Music Poll: RESULTS – Top 100 Countdown

Static X cant still be that popular, right?

I'm trying to think if there have been or will be any debut albums in this top 101!

Anal Stabwound a lock for the 2021 poll obv

Christ, that list is grim.

well surely one placed today?

xps

There have been several debuts since the start of this year's rollout.

Oh yeah, I am a total Duma ss

#29 must be their debut too come to think of it

It isn't!

really?

https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/victory-over-the-sun

hmmm, I need to check those out then.

Metal doesn't seem to do great debuts as often as other music does. For every Bergtatt there's a hundred callow early fumblings that later flowered into darkness

Black Sabbath and Metallica might disagree

There's always a few that get lucky

Plenty of debut albums have done well in the history of ILM metal poll

Any cracked the top 3?

the 1st Korn album was so popular it launched a whole sub-genre of copycats that dominated rock in the last half of the 90s/1st half of the early 00s

Not sure about top 3 but the 1st Ghost album must've been top 10.

but a decent amount must have made top 20

Black Sabbath and Metallica might disagree

And Candlemass, Celtic Frost, Cryptopsy, Death, Dismember, Dissection, Emperor, Entombed, Exodus, Godflesh, Immolation, Incantation, Katatonia, Mayhem, Mercyful Fate, Necrophobic, Slayer, Suffocation, etc.

Not counting reconfigurations or combinations of existing onces, like Waste Of Space Orchestra

pomenitul, those bands are all well old!

As are Ulver I guess. FINE

I think it's harder to land a telling debut punch now though maybe!

Is there any older genre for which this doesn't hold true?

mediocre post-punk?

Kill 'Em All far from the best Metallica imo.

Oh most definitely, but imago didn't stipulate that the debut had to be the discography highlight.

How did we compile this list? So glad you asked. We looked at the top 5,000 MetalSucks articles to receive traffic between June 1, 2018 and September 30, 2020 and calculated the total number of pageviews for each post in which the name of the band was contained in the headline. We then added all those pageviews together to come up with a total number for each band. These numbers include headlines that feature a key member of the band — so, for example, any headline with the name “Dave Mustaine” in it was counted towards Megadeth. Any headline which contained the name of the band and the name of a prominent member of that band — e.g., “Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine” — was only counted once.

Doesn't really sound like the most reliable methodology

Previous Metal Poll EOY Results Thread

I know plenty of people who like Kill Em All best of all their albums. Quite a lot of Iron Maiden albums think their debut is best.

Do you?

My fave Maiden is indeed their debut actually, lol

Kill Em All my 3rd fave metallica

"Sanctuary" rocks but obv they got better when they became the Ramones of prog.

Closest thing to a debut in the top 3 of our metal poll 2008-2019 is the Myrkur debut, albeit it was preceded by quite a lengthy EP

Pre poll era but Mastodon and Isis made 2 great debut albums

As did Jesu and Alcest

and the 1st Torche album is still their best imo

their 2nd album won our first poll of course

Was Le Secret the Alcest debut? That is my favourite thing of theirs.

yes

my fave of theirs too

But I don't think there were too many debuts last year that got any coverage due to lack of touring, its true.

Baroness debut album (after 2 EPs) did well too iirc

Yuri Gagarin (SWE) at #1, calling it now

anal stabwound needs to win, not just most promising debut by a middle school aged kid locked down in connecticut of 2020 but of ALL TIME

someone of that age becoming that good at any one of guitar, bass, vocals, drumming and composition is hard to imagine let alone all five

A collective TOO LOW for all the amazing things that placed yesterday that I voted for in higher positions: Boris, Dark Buddha Rising, Couch Slut, Victory Over the Sun, Hail Spirit Noir, Duma.

Listening to Mamaleek again now (which I also voted for) - it's so good and weird. Those anguished vocals screaming 'have mercy' against the little chilled out bluesy piano on Whites of the Eyes.

^^^I am led to believe this person has also now heard Aktor